Windshield cleaner



Aug. T12, 11941. c, HORTON 2,252,510

wINDsmELb CLEANER Y Filed Jan. 4, 1938 INVENTO Ergincmfi on, Q WQ T M AT ORNEYS actuating arm Patented Aug.l2, i941 UNITED STATES PATENT OF FlCE' Erwin C. Trico Application January 4, 1938,

'1 Claims.

Horton, Hamburg, Products Corporation,

N. Y., assignor to Buffalo, N. Y.

Serial No. 183,327

This invention relates to a windshield cleaner and mor particularly to the mounting connection between the wiper and the wiper carrying arm.

The present invent'on has for its object to provide an improved connection between the wiper and its carrying arm by wiper, while permitted certain freedom of movement with respect to the carrying arm, is firmly supported on th latter in its operative position whereby the usefulness, life and emciency of the blade is increased.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is a side elevational view of the invention as applied to a fragmentary windshield portion of a car, the latter being shown in'broken lines;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary side view of the wiper with parts shown in section;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view with portions removed to more clearly illustrate the invention; and

Fig. i is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken on line IV-IV of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing the numeral l designates a wiper or wiping blade which is reciprocated on the windshield 2 by an d, the latter being carried by and secured to the shaft ll mounted for reciprocation in a well-known manner.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, arm 3 comprises an inner member 5 secured which the replaceable,

to shaft d by a cap nut 6 for reciprocation therewith, an intermediate member l pivotally connected to member 5, as at 8, and an outer member it formed of a strip of resilient metal and secured intermediate its free ends to member l adjacent its outer end, as by a rivet l l.

In the operating position of arm. 3 the inner free end portion ill of spring member l2 is flexed, its reaction being against a small roller 9 rotatively mounted upon member 5 beyond the pivotal connection 8- so that the outer curved end ld'of the spring I2 is resiliently directed toward the windshield, thereby resiliently maintaining wiping blade l upon the windshield.

The wiping blade I intermediate its ends is provided with an attaching clip 2i which, according to the preferred embodiment, is formed separately from or backing l' of the wiper and of generally U-shape, its side walls 22 being secured in straddling relation over the backing member by rivets 23. The terminal end portions 24 of side walls 22, being turned inwardly toward each other, .provide a pair of spaced recesses or pockets 25 in which the curved end portions 21 of a leaf spring 26 are retained for limited sliding movement upon the back of the wiper. The recesses 25, while permitting spring 26 ample freedom of movement for efficient action, prevent accidental displacement thereof. The intermediate portion of spring 26 is bowed to a longitudinally curved and overlying wall 28 joining the side walls of recesses 25 and thereby defines a chamber 29 in which spring 26 operates. The opposite ends of the chamber open out over the terminal portions it, which latter define fixed approaches over the ends of the spring sertion of the curved tongue it into such chamber for engagement by the spring.

The curved end portion ll of l2 is reduced in width to form a wiper attaching tongue It. This construction provides shoulders it at the junction of the tongue with the body portion of the spring member for limiting insertion of the tongue into the clip. When inserting the tongue the spring 26 is urged back into the chamber and exerts a binding force on the tongue. The action of spring it also provides a force tending to hold the wiper normal to the windshield and at the same time permit the wiper to yield laterally for assuming the proper wiping angle or inclination to the windshield (Fig. 4).

The lateral edges of the tongue may be tapered from the medial portion towards the shoulders and towards the outer end of the tongue, as shown in Fig. 3, and thus provide a slight convexity lengthwise thereof to permit restricted pivotal movement of the wiper about an axis normal to the windshield.

The lengthwise curvature of the outer face of the tongue and the lengthwise curvature of the inner face of the wall 28 are substantially the same and transversely flat, and consequently the spring 26 will tend to maintain these parts in conforming engagement. However, if either end portion of the wiper encounters resistance during its movement across the windshield, that end 'of the wiper will tend to pivot about the tongue spring member with the influence of spring 26 providing a cushthe wall permits the wiper that of to move along the sibility of accidental displacement ofthe wiper its operative position remote.

same time it ment.

scope of th claims.

What is claimed is: e 1. In a windshield cleaner, means for detachably rocking.

4. A windshield cleaner comprising a wiper element, an actuating arm element therefor, one of said elements having an elongated curved portion with lateral edges slightly convexed the'convex edges, and means yieldably maintaining the nested engagement.

5. In a windshield cleaner, means for detachwiper to an actuating arm.

ing to hold the wiper on the arm.

.6. A wiper element for attachment to the attachment to an actuating comprising an elongated body having ERWIN C. HORTON.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.- 5

Patent No. 2,252, 10 v August 12, 191 .1. ERWIN c. HORTON. It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the abovefnumbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 2, first column, line 57, claiml, for the word "locking" read --rocking-; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 16th day of September, A. D. 19141.

Henr; Van Arsdale, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of. Patents. 

